LAST DAYS (Teachings of Joseph Smith)

Destruction, Blood, and Murder Between Families in Last Days — Willard Richards (circa June 26 and August 4, 1839)

Every man who is afraid. covetous &c will be taken in a snare. — The time is soon coming when no man will have any peace but in Zion & her Stakes. I saw men hunting the lives of their own sons, & brother murdering brother, women killing their own daughters & daughters seeking the lives of their mothers. I saw armies arrayed against armies I saw blood. desolations, &  he Son of Man has said that the mother Shall be against the daughter, & the daughter against the mother &c, &c,— these things are at our doors. They will follow the Saints of God from City to City — Satan will rage & The Spirit of the Devil is now enraged. &c I know not how soon these things will take place, and with a view of them shall I cry peace? No! I will lift up my voice & testify of them. How long you will have good crops. & the famine be kept off [in the last days] I do not know. when the fig tree leaves, know then that the summer is nigh at hand.

Discourse, between circa 26 June and circa 4 August 1839–A, as Reported by Willard Richards, pp. 70-71, The Joseph Smith Papers.

Lord Will Fight His Own Battle in the Last Days — Willard Richards (April 13, 1843)

If the​ speculators run againt me they run againt the buckler of Jehovah.— God did not send me up as he did Joshua, in former days God sent his servnts to fight, but in the last days he has promised to fight the battle himself.

God will deal with you himself. & will bless or curse you as you do behave yourselves.

Discourse given on April 13, 1843. Willard Richards, Discourse, 13 April 1843, as Reported by Willard Richards, pp. 129-130, The Joseph Smith Papers.

Previously Inaccessible Knowledge Revealed to Babes in Last Days — Willard Richards (June 11, 1843)

men have thought many things insutabl in the last days. that he should raise the dead.

Things have been hid from before the foundation of the world to be reveald to babes in the last days.

Discourse, 11 June 1843–A, as Reported by Willard Richards, p. 243, The Joseph Smith Papers.

Knowledge Previously Hid Revealed to Babes in Last Days (August 13, 1843)

Destruction & Burning In Last Days After Servants of God Sealed in Foreheads — Willard Richards (August 13, 1843)

The world is reserved unto burning in the last days—— he shall send Elijah the prophet . . . and he shall reveal the covenants of the fathrs in relation to the childrn,— and the covenants of the children in relation to the fathrs.—

4 destroying angels holding power over the 4 quarters of the earth— until the the servants of God are seald in their foreheads.— what is that seal. shall I tell you? No.—

Doctrine Election.—— sealing. of the sevats servants of our god on the top of their heads.— tis the not the cross as the catholics would have it. doctrine of Election to Abraham was in the relation to the Lord.— A man wishes to be embraced in the covenant of Abraham— a man Judge. Higby—— in world.— of spirits—

is sealed unto the throne, & doctrine of Election sealing the father & childrn together.

Discourse, 13 August 1843–A, as Reported by Willard Richards, pp. 48-49, The Joseph Smith Papers.

Elijah Will Reveal Covenants Made to Fathers before Final Destructions — Martha Jane Knowlton Coray (August 13, 1843)

Malachi 4th ch Behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud and they that do wickedly Shall be as stulbble and they that cometh shall burn them up although in the begining God created the Earth standing in the water and out of the water Still in the End it shall be burned and few men left— But before that God shall send unto them Elijah the prophet and he shall reveal unto them the covenants of the fathers with relation to the children and the covenants of the children in relation to the Fathers that they may have the priviledge of entering into the same in order to effect their mutual Salvation And I saw another angel ascending from the east having the Seal of the living God and he cried &c. saying Hurt not the Earth nor sea nor trees till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads

Discourse, 13 August 1843–A, as Reported by Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, pp. 33-34, The Joseph Smith Papers.

Work of Last Days Hastened from Soberness, Fasting, Prayer, Etc. — Willard Richards (October 9, 1843)

If we would be sober. & watch in fasting and prayer. God would tun away sickness from our midst. Hasten the work of the temple. and all the work of the Last Days. Let the elders & saits do away light midedness and be sober.—

Discourse, 9 October 1843, as Reported by Willard Richards, p. 122, The Joseph Smith Papers.

Keys & Power Given to Witness over All People in the Last Days — Thomas Bullock (May 12, 1844)

all the testimony is, that the Lord in the last days would commit the keys of the priesthood to a witness over all people— has the Gospel of the Kingdom commenced in the last days, and will God take it from the man, until he takes him, himself?, I have read it precisely as the words flowed from the lips of Jesus Christ— John the Revelator saw an angel flying thro’ the midst of heaven, having the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, &c. the Scripture is ready to be fulfilled when great wars, famines, pestilence, great distress judgments &c are ready to be poured out on the Inhabitants of the Earth— John saw the angel having the holy priesthood who should preach—the everlasting gospel to all nations, God had an angel, a special messenger, ordained, & prepared for that purpose in the last days— Woe! Woe! be to that man, or set of men, who lift up their hands against God and his Witness in these last days

Discourse, 12 May 1844, as Reported by Thomas Bullock, p. 1, The Joseph Smith Papers.

Men Who Attack God and His Witness Will Deceive “Almost the Very Chosen Ones” — Thomas Bullock (May 12, 1844)

Woe! Woe! be to that man, or set of men, who lift up their hands against God and his Witness in these last days.— for they shall deceive almost the very chosen ones — my apostate enemies say that I have been a true prophet— & I had rather be a fallen true prophet, than a false prophet; when a man goes about prophesying and commands men to obey him his teachings, he must be either a true or false prophet— false prophets always arise to oppose the true prophets, and they will prophesy so very near the truth that they will deceive almost the very chosen ones —

Discourse, 12 May 1844, as Reported by Thomas Bullock, p. 1, The Joseph Smith Papers.

Joseph Smith & Others Ordained in Grand Council in Heaven to be Ministers in the Last Days (May 12, 1844)

Once Established in Last Days, Kingdom of God Never Destroyed (May 12, 1844)

Joseph Smith an Instrument in Setting up Kingdom of Daniel — Thomas Bullock (May 12, 1844)

I calculate to be one of the Instruments of setting up the Kingdom of Daniel, by the word of the Lord, and I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world

Discourse, 12 May 1844, as Reported by Thomas Bullock, p.1, The Joseph smith Papers.